sound

Significado

Adj

1. Healthy.
2. Complete, solid, or secure.
3. Having the property of soundness.
4. (slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
5. Quiet and deep.
6. Heavy; laid on with force.
7. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

Adv

Soundly.

Intj

Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.

Noun

1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
2. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
3. A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
4. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
5. Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
6. A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.

Verb

1. To produce a sound.
2. To convey an impression by one's sound.
3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
4. (obsolete) To resound.
5. To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
6. To cause to produce a sound.
7. To pronounce.

Noun

1. A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
2. The air bladder of a fish.

Verb

1. Of a whale, to dive downwards.
2. To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
3. To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
4. To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

Noun

A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/saʊnd/

Etimología

From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.

Oraciones

He heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so .

Escuchó un sonido de rejilla amortiguado y vio el Jerk Black Mark hacia adelante una pulgada más o menos.